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"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
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Antonin Artaud
"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
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"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."
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Wilson Mizner
"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."
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"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."
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George Bernard Shaw
"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."
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"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
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"What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth."
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Lillian Hellman
"What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth."
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"Goodness is beauty in the best estate."
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Christopher Marlowe
"Goodness is beauty in the best estate."
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"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
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George Bernard Shaw
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
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"I find the medicine worse than the malady."
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John Fletcher
"I find the medicine worse than the malady."
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"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."
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Friedrich Schiller
"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."
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"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."
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William Shakespeare
"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."
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"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."
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Oscar Wilde
"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."
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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."
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Wilson Mizner
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."
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"Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow."
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John Fletcher
"Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow."
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"Art is the daughter of freedom."
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Friedrich Schiller
"Art is the daughter of freedom."
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"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
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Oscar Wilde
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
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"There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about."
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Oscar Wilde
"There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about."
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"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
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Jean Genet
"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
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"I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller."
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George Bernard Shaw
"I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller."
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"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
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"Deed, not words shall speak me."
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John Fletcher
"Deed, not words shall speak me."
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"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
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Oscar Wilde
"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
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"I love every bone in their heads."
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Eugene O'Neill
"I love every bone in their heads."
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"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
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"They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world."
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William Shakespeare
"They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world."
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"In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us."
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David Mamet
"In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us."
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"What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her?"
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William Shakespeare
"What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her?"
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"Murder begins where self-defense ends."
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Georg Buchner
"Murder begins where self-defense ends."
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"I wasted time and now doth time waste me."
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William Shakespeare
"I wasted time and now doth time waste me."
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"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."
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Clare Boothe Luce
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."
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"It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases."
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Friedrich Schiller
"It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases."
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"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
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Anton Chekhov
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
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"I shine in tears like the sun in April."
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Cyril Tourneur
"I shine in tears like the sun in April."
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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Lillian Hellman
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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"Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness."
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Oscar Wilde
"Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness."
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"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."
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John Ford
"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."
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"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."
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Jules Renard
"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."
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"Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect."
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Pierre Corneille
"Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect."
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"Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body."
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Georg Buchner
"Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body."
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"More of your conversation would infect my brain."
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William Shakespeare
"More of your conversation would infect my brain."
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"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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Jean Genet
"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer."
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Brendan Behan
"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer."
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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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Harold Pinter
"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"Advertising is the very essence of democracy."
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Anton Chekhov
"Advertising is the very essence of democracy."
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"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
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Alan Bennett
"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
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"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"
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Christopher Marlowe
"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
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Oscar Wilde
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
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"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."
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Anton Chekhov
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
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William Shakespeare
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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William Shakespeare
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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George Bernard Shaw
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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